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At the beginning of January, asakiyume posted on facebook:

2013 Creative PAY IT FORWARD. The first 5 people to comment on this status will receive something from me this calendar year - a surprise gift of some sort. There will likely be no warning. It will happen whenever the mood strikes me. The catch? You must also post this as your status and pay it ( Read more... )

Apologies for the long blog absence without warning! I was off on a family vacation that involved not one but two family weddings in beautiful Michigan. We had a lovely time, and when I returned home I jumped right into finishing up the last round of autobiographical essays, which included an original piece by Tananarive Due. Due and her husband, ( Read more... )

(x-posted from kickstart_tu)

Dear Friends,

Any of you who follow my livejournal know that recently, I had the opportunity to have Stacy Whitman (slwhitman) write a guest post about her plans for her new publishing house: Tu Publishing. The mission is admirable: the books put out by Tu Publishing will feature multicultural heroes and heroines, helping science fiction ( Read more... )

The Google Alert has turned up something fun! Dane of War just posted a review of the Chronicles of Ramlar Soundtrack, The Dreaming, and Into the Reach got a mention!

First and foremost, the music is based on what appears within the pages of the game’s Core Rule Book and Alana Abbott’s novel - Into The Reach. Both are so rich in detail that ( Read more... )

I've had the pleasure of corresponding with Francesca Forrest (asakiyume) since we met in the comments of the athanarel community and on sartorias's live journal. When Francesca was announced as one of the other writers to be featured in the Coyote Wild young adult issue, I was incredibly excited to meet her all over again--this time through her fiction. Her work has been ( Read more... )

Sorry to be dropping on and off so much this month. The house is still taking up a lot of time and brain room, and getting ready for holiday travel does the same. (We've also been celebrating holidays in an impromptu fashion, like sharing the beginning of Hanukkah candle lighting over at lisa_bee and hellpossum's.) On the writing front, I'm working on a couple of ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention, Coyote Wild's YA issue is live, complete with "Nomi's Wish" and stories by janni, faerie_writer, jimhines, asakiyume, drachin8, fairmer, and several other wonderful writers who I don't know from lj. (I have not yet read them, but I know they are wonderful because I trust sartorias's taste ( Read more... )